LANGSHAN CLUB OF VICTORIA Incorporation No. A0056597C

NEWSLETTER

Issue No. 3 August 2012

EE BIRD IN SHOW EE

2012 ANNUAL SHOW SONYA FORD’S AUSTRALIAN LANGSHAN BANTAM COCKEREL

HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE

Q From the Secretary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 2 Q Annual Show Report……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 2

Q Annual Show Pictorial………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Page 3 Q ATTENTION – FUND RAISING……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ..Page 4 Q Around the Shows……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 4,5,6,7 Q A Little Bit About ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 7 & 8 Q Breeders Directory……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 8 Q A Verse by W. Ellwood…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 9 Q On the Lighter Side of Life…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Page 9

OFFICE BEARERS Patrons George Norman. Pat Birchall. Secretary: Debbie Sigmund President: Michael Grounds Treasurer: Brett Batcheldor Vice Presidents Michael Holmes Show Manager: Hayden Stephens Michael Jones Committee Members: Sonya Ford, Elizabeth Batcheldor, Wayne Peachey

FROM THE SECRETARY Welcome to the 3rd Newsletter of the Club. What a wonderful year so far its been for the Langshan Breed with an Australian Bantam Black Pullet taking out the Best Softfeather In Show at the National Poultry Show in Canberra. Congratulations to Phillip & Linda Tisdell . Welcome also to new members Irene Askew, Noeleen Battley, Rod Butt, Robert Hunt, Colin Kincaid, David Plant, John Suters, Macdonald Family, and Mark Lee. We hope your time with the Club is an enjoyable one. This newsletter is an extra edition because we felt to wait until November to let you all know the results of our Annual Show, was too far away. An end of year newsletter in November will still be sent to you all. The Annual General Meeting was held after the judging was completed at the Annual Show. Office Bearers were elected and nominations were taken for the 2013 Annual Show. A Committee Meeting is being held at 7.30pm on Friday 24

th August at the Warragul Poultry Pavilion. This meeting will

be open to all members who wish to attend. If you have any items you would like to put to the Committee or discuss at the meeting please come along and discuss your ideas as the Committee welcomes input from all members.

ANNUAL SHOW REPORT

Firstly, I want to thank the following sponsors and people who generously donated trophies, cash and sashes. Your support and generosity is sincerely appreciated.

LAUCKE MILLS STOCK FEED u GEORGE NORMAN u SONYA FORD u COPRICE FEEDS

MICHAEL GROUNDS u BRETT & ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR u MICHAEL & KATHY HOLMES

MEGG MILLAR (AUSTRALASIAN POULTRY MAGAZINE) u BRIAN TIYCE u J & K BLAIR

DEB & LOU SIGMUND u THE HAGUE FAMILY u MIKE & CORAL JONES u MAX BLAIR

LANGSHAN CLUB OF NSW u BURNIE POULTRY SOCIETY (TAS) u KEVIN COLLINS

I particularly would like to thank all the people who helped me in preparing for and run our second Annual Show. To have such a wonderful team to support me as Secretary of our Club makes the tasks in hand so much easier. The show went without a hitch, so to speak. Our Chief Steward (and Club Treasurer) Brett Batcheldor, Steward Mark Lee, and Show Manager Hayden Stephens took all measures to ensure the show went as smoothly as possible, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their colossal effort and encouraging attitude. However the show was marred in some respects as some exhibitors who either refused or forgot to clean out their pens. I would like to take this opportunity to remind those exhibitors that cleaning out their own pens was a show rule listed in the schedule, as it will be again next year.

The day was enjoyed by everyone, in particular our Judge Mr.Warren Schelbach who made positive comments about the quality and the amount of birds we have down here in the cold south east. He was also very appreciative of our hospitality and caring nature. We would all like to thank Mr. Schelbach for allowing us to occupy his time and borrow his expert eye.

What a phenomenal success our show was. Without exhibitors there is no show so thankyou all Exhibitors for your support. We received 237 entries totalling 255 birds, owned by 27 individual exhibitors travelling from as far as Taree, East Maitland and Goulburn in New South Wales and from all over Victoria . The largest class numbers were in the Australian Bantams – 46 black Pullets, 30 black cockerels and 10 black hens. In the Australian Standard Langshan classes it was very pleasing to see a line-up of 17 very nice black Pullets and 11 black Cockerels, being the two largest classes in that section. The numbers were disappointing in the Standard Blue classes with only 2 birds entered. In the Australian Bantams in Blue and White classes the numbers were quite good, the largest being 13 Blue Pullets and 10 Blue Hens. As most of you will be aware, we have rarely seen Croad Langshans exhibited over the past years so the Club was very pleased to receive entries of 19 Standard Croad Langshans both in the Blue and Black classes and 4 Bantam Croads.

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ANNUAL SHOW RESULTS :-

BIRD IN SHOW - Sonya Ford’s Aust. Bantam Ckl RESERVE BIRD IN SHOW – J & C Anderson’s Aust. Standard Black Ckl JUNIOR BIRD IN SHOW – Keelie Sheppard’s Bantam Black Hen RESERVE JUNIOR BIRD IN SHOW – Dimity Hague’s Bantam Blue Pullet CHAMPION CROAD LANGSHAN – Macdonald Family’s Black Ckl. RES. CHAMPION CROAD LANGSHAN – Macdonald Family’s Black Pullet

CHAMPION AUST. BANTAM – Sonya Ford’s Ckl RES. CHAMPION AUST. BANTAM – George Norman’s Black Ckl. CHAMPION AUST. STANDARD – J & C Anderson’s Black Ckl RES. CHAMPION AUST. STANDARD – David Plant’s Black Hen CHAMPION BANTAM CROAD – J & C. Anderson’s Ckl BEST EXHIBITION PAIR – Irene Askew’s Aust. Bantam Black Pullets BEST LANGSHAN ANY OTHER COLOUR THAN BLACK - Deb Sigmund’s Bantam Blue Hen Page 2

Australian Standard Langshans Black Cock ( 3 ) 1 R. Hunt; 2 M. Johnson; 3 B. Tiyce Black Hen ( ) 1 D. Plant; 2 I. Askew; 3 M. Johnson Black Ckl ( ) 1 J & C Anderson;2 D. Plant; 3 W. Peachey Black Pullet (17)1 C. Kincaid; 2 G. Norman; 3 N. Fenaughty; 4 W. Peachey 5 J & C Anderson

Best Black – J & C. Anderson’s Ckl Blue Cock ( 1 ) M. Grounds Blue Ckl ( 1 ) M. Grounds

Best Blue – Michael Grounds White Cock (2) 1 W. Peachey; 2 R. Hunt White Hen ( 3) 1 W. Peachey; 2 W. Peachey; 3 M. Grounds White Ckl (3) 1 M. Grounds; 2 M. Grounds; 3 W. Peachey White Plt (3) 1 & 2 W. Peachey; 3 M. Grounds

Best White – Wayne Peachey’s Hen Australian Bantam Langshans Black Cock (4) 1 R. Hunt; 2 B. Tiyce; 3 D. Sigmund Black Hen (10) 1 I. Askew; 2 R. Hunt; 3 N. Fenaughty; 4 D. Plant Black Ckl (30) 1 Sonya Ford; 2 G. Norman; 3 N. Fenaughty; 4 B & E Batcheldor; 5 B & E Batcheldor Black Pullet (46) 1 R. Hunt; 2 I. Askew; 3 D. Plant; 4 J Suters; 5 D. Sigmund; 6 M & K Holmes

Best Black – S. Ford’s Ckl Blue Cock (3) 1 D. Plant; 2 W. Peachey; 3 B. Tiyce Blue Hen (8) 1. D. Sigmund; 2 W. Peachey; 3 B. Tiyce Blue Ckl ( 6 ) 1 B & E Batcheldor; 2 N. Battley; 3 B & E Batcheldor Blue Plt (13) 1 D. Plant; 2 J & C Anderson; 3 N. Battley

Best Blue – D. Sigmund’s Hen White Cock ( 1 ) B. Tiyce White Hen (4) 1 W. Peachey; 2 B. Tiyce; 3 N. Chiselett White Ckl (7) 1 W. Peachey; 2 and 3 N. Chiselett White Plt ( 5 ) 1 N. Chiselett; 2 W. Peachey; 3 N. Chiselett

Best White – W. Peachey’s Ckl Standard Croad Langshans Black Hen (1) !. Peachey Black Ckl (4) 1 Macdonald Family; 2 W. Peachey; 3 Macdonald Family. Black Plt (7) 1,2 & 3 Macdonald Family

Best Black Macdonald Family’s Ckl Blue Ckl (3) 1 Macdonald Family; 2 M. Lee; 3 Macdonald Family Blue Plt (4) 1 Macdonald Family; 2 M. Lee; 3 Macdonald Family.

Best A.O.C. - Macdonald Family’s Ckl Bantam Croad Langshans Black Ckl (1) J & C Anderson Black Plt (3) 1J & C Anderson; 2 Macdonald Family; 3 J & C Anderson

Best Bantam Croad –J & C Anderson’s Ckl

Exhibition Pair of Females Pair Aust. Standard (3) 1 W. Peachey; 2 M. Grounds; 3 B. Tiyce Pair Aust. Bantams (5) – 1 I. Askew; 2 J & C Anderson; 3 W. Peachey Pair Croads – 1 W. Peachey

Best Exhibition Pair – I. Askew’s Black Pullets

JUNIORS Australian Langshan Bantams only were entered Black Cock (2) 1 and 2 K. Sheppard Black Hen (6) 1K. Sheppard; 2 D. Hague; 3 K Sheppard Black Pullet ( 5) 1 K. Sheppard; 2 K. Sheppard; 3 D. Hague Blue Hen ( 1) D.A. S. Lewis Blue Pullet (1) D. Hague.

n ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS n

Michael Grounds Jewellers of 309 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, has again very generously donated to the club a fantastic Pearl Pendant, valued at One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00). This beautiful Pearl Pendant will be used as a fund raiser to enable the Club to stand on a solid financial footing for our next show. Further information will be sent to all members in due course.

AROUND THE SHOWS

GIPPSLAND RIVIERA POULTRY & GAME BIRD CLUB YOUNG BIRD SHOW held 27.5.2012 Judges: Bob French – Softfeather Large, Specials Doris Loats – Softfeather Bantam, Waterfowl Black Standard Pullet – 1 & 2 C. Kincaid; 3 W. Peachey Black Standard Ckl – 1 C. Kincaid, 2 J. Bradford. Reserve standard softfeather – C., Kincaid’s Pullet. Black Bantam Pullet – 1. J. Anderson, 2 & 3 J. Mason Black Bantam Ckl – 1 S. Ford, 2 J. Anderson, 3 S. Ford Blue Bantam Pullet – 1 & 2 S. Ford, 3 W. Peachey. Blue Bantam Ckl – 1 W. Peachey, 2 D. Sigmund Best Softfeather Bantam – J. Anderson’s Bantam Pullet. Reserve Champion Softfeather In Show – J &C Anderson’s Bantam Pullet.

WANGARATTA POULTRY CLUB ANNUAL SHOW held 20th May, 2012 Judges: Les Goodwin – All Softfeather Black Langshan Bantam Cockerel – 1 & 2 Nick Fenaughty Black Langshan Bantam Pullet – 1 & 2 Nick Fenaughty BEST LANGSHAN BANTAM – Nick Fenaughty

Nick Fenaughty’s Winning Bantam Pullet

BURNIE POULTRY CLUB SHOW held 19.5.2012 Judge: Michael Holmes. 360 Birds Large Cock – 1 J & A Jones. Hen - 1 R. M Weldon. Page 4

Ckl – 1 Maurice Young; 2 J & A Jones Plt. - 1 R.M. Weldon Champion Langshan Standard – Maurice Young’s Ckl. Bantam Hen (2) – 1 Maurice Young; 2 D & R Lynne Ckl (4) – 1 D & A Barber; 2 D & R Lynne. Plt (19) – 1 & 3 D & R Lynne; 2 Maurice Young; Champion Langshan Black Bantam – D & R. Lynne’s Pullet Bantam Blue Ckl (1) – Maurice Young 1

st

Plt (4) - D & J Knight 1st

and 2nd

Champion Langshan Blue Bantam – D & L Knight’s Pullet CHAMPION SOFTFEATHER BANTAM – D & R Lynne’s Langshan Bantam Pullet. RESERVE SOFTFEATHER HEAVY LARGE – Maurice Young’s ‘Black Langshan Standard Ckl.

Best Blue Langshan At Burnie P.C. Show D & L Knight’s Pullet

V.P. & K. CLUB SOFTFEATHER SHOW held 16.6.2012 Judge: Lachlan Macdonald Black Standard Pullet – 1 W. Peachey Black Bantam Ckl – 1. 2 and 3 W. Peachey Black Bantam Plt – 1 I. Askew 2 and 3 D. Sigmund Blue Bantam Hen – 1 D. Sigmund; 2 W. Peachey; 3 N. Battley. Blue Bantam Cockerel - N. Battley Blue Bantam Pullet - 1 W. Peachey; 2 N. Battley; 3 D. Sigmund. Champion Softfeather Bantam – Irene Askew’s Black Bantam Pullet.

Reserve Champion Softfether Large – W. Peachey’s Pullet. ESSENDON POULTRY CLUB SHOW held Judge: Black Bantam Ckl - 1 N. Battley; 2 M & K Holmes; 3 Kainui Park Stud Black Bantam Plt – 1 I. Askew; 2 M & K Holmes; 3 Kainui Park Stud. Best Black Langshan Bantam – Irene Askew Reserve – Noeleen Battley Blue Langshan Ckl – 1 N,. Battley Blue Langshan Plt – N. Battley White Langshan Hen – N. Chiselett White Langshan Ckl – N. Chiselett White Langshan Plt – N. Chiselett Best Blue or White Langshan Bantam – Noeleen Battley Reserve – Noeleen Battley BEST SOFTFEATHER BANTAM – IRENE ASKEW WARRAGUL POULTRY CLUB ANNUAL SHOW held 15.7.2012 Judge: Michael McGrath and Bruce Paterson

Australian Langshans – Standard:- Black Hen - 1 Irene Askew

Black Ckl – 1 W. Peachey; 2 J. Bradford; 3 W. Peachey Black Plt – 1, 2, & 3 W. Peachey Best Standard Black Langshan– I. Askew White Hen - 1 W. Peachey White Ckl - 1 & 2 W. Peachey White Plt - W. Peachey Best Standard White Langshan – W. Peachey’s Ckl

Australian Langshans Bantams:- Black Hen - 1 D. Sigmund; 2 I Askew Black Ckl – 1 B & E Batcheldor; 2 I. Askew; 3 B & E Batcheldor Black Plt – 1 I. Askew; 2 I. Askew; 3 B & E Batcheldor Champion Black Langshan Bantam – I. Askew Reserve Champion – B & E. Batcheldor’s Blue Hen – D. Sigmund; 2 W. Peachey; 3 W. Peachey Blue Ckl – 1 B & E Batcheldor; 2 B & E Batcheldor; 3 W. Peachey Blue Plt – 1 B & E Batcheldor; 2 W. Peachey Best Blue Bantam – B & E Batcheldor’s Cockerel RESERVE CHAMPION SOFTFEATHER BANTAM HEAVY – B & E. Batcheldor’s Blue Cockerel White Bantam Cock – 1 & 2 W. Peachey

Irene Askew’s winning Bantam Pullet

Elizabeth and Brett Batcheldor’s winning Bantam Cockerel WARRNAMBOOL POULTRY CLUB ANNUAL SHOW Held 15.7.2012 Judge:Hamish Russell

The Ron Halliwell Testimonial Show was held this day and the Langshan Club of Victoria sponsored a Sash and Trophy to be awarded to CHAMPION LANGSHAN IN SHOW. It is

with pleasure I have to report that the winner of this award was Ron Halliwell himself with a Bantam Black Pullet.

RESERVE CHAMPION LANGSHAN IN SHOW – Keelie Sheppard. RESULTS:-

No Standard Langshan Entries Croad Langshan Standard Pullet – 1 Sally Potter

Australian Langshan Bantam classes:- Black Cock - 1 D. Holden Black Ckl - 1 Wilson Family; 2 Ron Halliwell Black Plt – 1 R. Halliwell; 2 Ray Zobel Page 5

BEST SF Bantam – Ron Halliwell’s Black Pullet RES. SF Bantam – D. Holden’s Black Ckl CHAMPION LANGSHAN IN SHOW - R. HALLLIWELL

JUNIORS Bantam Black Cock - 1 James Tucker; 2 Keelie Sheppard. Bantam Black hen - 1 Keelie Sheppard; 2 Keelie Sheppard Bantam Black Pullet - 1 Keelie Sheppard; 2 Keelie Sheppard Best Junior Langshan - Keelie Sheppard’s Bantam Hen Res. Junior Langshan – Keelie Sheppard CHAMPION JUNIOR – Keelie Sheppard’s Bantam Hen

Ron Halliwell holding his winning Bantam Pullet at his Testimonial Show

Ron Halliwell’s Champion Langshan In Show

Keelie Sheppard’s Bantam Hen – Champion Junior

David Holden’s Bantam Cock – Res. Softfeather Bantam

GIPPSLAND RIVIERA POULTRY & GAME CLUB ANNUAL SHOW held 22.7.2012 Judge: Ken Bjorksten Croad Langshan – (1) W. Peachey’s Standard Black Hen

Australian Standard Langshans Black Cock – 1 Mason Johnson Black Hen (3) -1 I. Askew; 2 & 3 M. Johnson Black Ckl(5) - 1 W. Peachey; 2 C. Kincaid; 3 W. Peachey Black Plt (8) – 1W. Peachey; 2 C. Kincaid; 2 W. Peachey Blue Ckl – 1 J & C. Anderson Champion Softfeather Large Fowl – Irene Askew’s Hen

Australian Bantam Langshans

Black Cock – D. Sigmund Black Hen (4) – D. Sigmund; W. Peachey; 3 W. Peachey Black Ckl (6) – 1 S. Ford; W. Peachey; 3 I. Askew Black Plt (14) – 1 J & C Anderson; 2 D. Sigmund; 3 I. Askew Best of Breed - D. Sigmund’s Black Hen Blue Hen (4) – 1 D. Sigmund; 2 D. Sigmund; 3 W. Peachey Blue Ckl (2) – 1 W. Peachey; 2 H. Stephens Blue Plt (4) – 1 J & C Anderson; 2 D. Sigmund; 3 W. Peachey Best Blue Bantam – D. Sigmund’s Hen

JUNIORS Bantam Black Hen (1) – D. Hague Bantam Black Plt (2) – 1 D. Hague; 2 L. McParland Bantam Blue Hen (1) – Mason and Jackson Annear Bantam Blue Pullet (1) – Dimity Hague Junior Bird in Show – Dimity Hague’s Black Hen Reserve Blue Bird in Show (Feature Breed) – Dimity Hague

Dimity Hague Junior Bird in Show

Irene Askew’s Australian Standard Hen – Champion Softfeather Large THE LANGSHAN CLUB OF NSW held its Annual Show in July . Judge: Matt Willilams from Picton. Results and photos – courtesy of David Plant. GRAND CHAMPION IN SHOW – S. Phillis Black Cockerel Champion LF Black & Champion LF – S. Phillis, Black Ckl Page 6

Res. LF – Osborne Family Black Pullet 1

st LF Black Hen – David Plant

1st

Black Btm Plt – Powell Family & Res. Champ Black 1

st Black Btm Hen, Champion Bantam & RESERVE BIRD IN

SHOW – David Plant

Grand Champion Bird in Show at NSW Langshan Club Show

David Plant’s Standard Black Hen. (This hen won Reserve Champion Aust. Standard at the Langshan Club of Vic. Show in July)

David Plant’s Black Bantam Hen – Reserve Bird in Show

FOOTSCRAY & DISTRICT POULTRY CLUB ANNUAL SHOW Held 28/7/2012 Judge: Mr. James Bishop Reserve Bird in Show – Rod Butt – Aust. Langshan Bantam Black Pullet OAKLEIGH POULTRY CLUB ANNUAL SHOW held 4/8/2012 Judge: Mr. Phil. Pickles Feature Breed - Aust. & Croad Langshan

Aust. Langshan Large Fowl:- Black Hen ( 2 ) – 1 & 2 M. Johnson Black Ckl (3) - 1, 2, & 3 W. Peachey Black Plt. (3) - 1,2, & 3 W. Peachey 1 White Cock, 2 White Hens, 1 Ckl and 2 Plts all exhibited by W. Peachey. B.O.B Hen Best Australian Langshan Large Fowl – W, Peachey’s Black Pullet

Croad Langshans 1 Ckl, 1 Hen, 2 Black Pullets and 2 Blue Pullets all exhibited by W. Peachey Best Croad Langshan – Black Cockerel.

Aust. Langshan Bantams Black Cock (1) – W. Peachey Black Hen (4) – 1 D. Sigmund; 2 W. Peachey; 3 D. Sigmund Black Pullet (5) – 1 and 2 B. & E Batcheldor; 3 S. Ford. Black Ckl – (5) - 1 W. Peachey; 2 M. Johnson; 3 S. Ford Best Black Langshan – D. Sigmund Blue Cock – 1 W. Peachey Blue Hen ( 5) 1, 2 and 3 – D. Sigmund Blue Ckl – 1 and 3 B & E Batcheldor; 2 W. Peachey Blue Pullet – 1 B & E Batcheldor; 2 W. Peachey; 3 W. Ford Best Blue Langshan – D. Sigmund Whites – 3 Hens, 2 Ckls and 1 Pullet exhibited by W. Peachey. Best White - Pullet Champion AOC. Aust. Langshan – D. Sigmund’s Blue Hen CHAMPION LANGSHAN IN SHOW – D. Sigmund’s Blue Hen

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A Little Bit About…………..

CROAD LANGSHANS

The Croad Langshan breed originated from the Langshan region, in the north of China near the Mongolian border. Major F T Croad imported the first Langshans from China into Britain in 1872. The Croad is well known for the “U” Shape as seen in profile where the tail feathers are at the same level as the head. The Croad Langshans are thought to be the most “true” to the original type. In a very interesting article on Croads, written by Lyn Heigl from UK, she states “Other Langshans also exist – such as German, Modern, Australian and American – but tend to be taller and leggier than the Croad. In Australia I am told that Langshans were 50% of the nations breeding flock before 1894, but as fertility dropped over the years, Orpington blood was introduced and the Australian Langshan today looks more like the Modern Langshan than the Croad”. There are Croad Langshans in UK, Belgium, Canary Islands, America, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Wales, France and Scotland. Are there still Langshans in China? There is certainly is!! In Yangkou Town, Rudong Country, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province in China there is the Langshan Chicken Farm which was established in 1959 to help the endangered Langshan Chicken. The farm is for preserving, upgrading and breeding Langshan Chicken and has a floor space of 200,000 sq. mtrs. with 20 standard hen houses and running 50,000 Langshan Chickens. The farm also has an isolation building and a warehouse. The Croad Langshan is becoming more popular once again here in Australia at the Poultry Shows as was evident at the National Poultry Show in Canberra this year with 27 Standard Croads entered and at our own Langshan show here in Victoria, 19 Standard and 4 Bantam Croads were exhibited. Also at their Annual Show in July this year the Essendon Poultry Club had a display of Croad Langshans. Page 7

This must all be very encouraging for the Croad breeders and exhibitors . The Croads are known for their gentle and docile temperament. They have dense glossy black feathers and lay around 150 eggs a year which are a plum colour and they can live for around 10 years. Like the Australian Langshans they have feathers down the outside of the leg and to the end of the outer toe, the soles of the feet are pink and the toe nails white. They are big birds and are not fully matured until around 2 years of age. They come in Black, Blue and White colours although the Whites are rarely seen here in Australia. I received a lovely email from Clare Curtis in the UK in reply to my enquiries about Croads overseas. Clare has her own website and has kindly allowed me to use some photos of her and her Croads from her website to include in our

newsletter. The photographer is Johnathan Ayres . Clare Curtis from the United Kingdom with her prize winning 10 month old Croad Langshan Ckl and an

amazing array of trophies which I believe was all won at one show – The National Poultry Club Show in 2009. Her major triumph being RESERVE BEST IN SHOW. Clare’s Best Large White Croad Langshan Pullet – National Poultry Club Show 2009 (Photo by Mick Corrigan. UK)

Reserve Best in Show National Poultry Club Show 2009 in the UK. (Photo by Mick Corrigan. UK)

The Croad Langshan was imported into America in 1878 and admitted to the American Standard in 1883 but only the colours Black and White. The colour blue was not accepted to the American Standard until 1987. An American Male

An American Female

Croad

BREEDERS DIRECTORY

The 2012 Breeders Directory will be posted to all members in early November and I am currently in the process of updating all the information from last year. The Club has new members to add to the Directory. If you have made any changes from the information you supplied in 2011, regarding the colours and/or breeds you keep could you please let me know as soon as you are able to allow me time to collate the information. Also if your contact details have changed ie. phone number or you now have an email address could you please let me know so I can make the necessary changes. My contact details are:- Email fireglow@netspace.net.au Mobile 0458796705 Home Phone 03 51 696705 The feedback from last year’s Directory was very positive as it gave a number of people the contacts for breeders of various colours or breeds they were looking for.

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YET “CHANGE” they cry!!! By W. Ellwood

Oh woe is me

A call to change the standards I did see

Yet is it really change we need

Or men who better do the deed?

I specially seek an Arthur King

With bold men, prepared to do a finer thing.

Champions dedicated to guard this trust

Custodians of the standards – cause most just.

To you of modern quick fix mind

Would you make our birds a different kind?

What you cannot easily achieve

Will you change to suit your need?

Such effrontery would you dare show

To prove that more you think you know?

Never to reason the why or wherefore

Neither benefit nor logic care for.

Our formulators worked so near their task

Understood full well what they did ask

The design was capability

Then beauty added for nobility

In OEG did they not set the mould of Warrior

Full of those qualities that leave rivals sorrier

With attributes so fit and proper

Was not created fighter, sire , show stopper.

Now, a blue ribbon gives but one man’s view

But is the bird of Standard really true?

While prize cards and ribbons may bedeck your wall

Surely retaining excellence is by far the better call

How will those future enthusiasts record,

By which criteria will we be scored

While “Change” they cry – brave Keepers, dare I ask

Is staying true, indeed, too difficult a task?

“Oh, don’t be so dramatic. You say you’re

pregnant every day”

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is ‘UP’.

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP,

you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When

the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it

wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't

rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP. For now my

time is UP, so – it is time to shut UP!

LAUCKE MILLS POULTRY FEEDS Sponsors Of The Langshan Club Of Victoria

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ANNUAL SHOW PICTORIAL Clockwise L to R - Brian Tiyce from Goulburn. The Judge – Warren Schelbach and his wife Wendy. The Cub Treasurer Brett Batcheldor and Club Secretary, Debbie Sigmund. The Winner of BIRD IN SHOW Sonya Ford’s Black Cockerel. Debbie Sigmund’s Best Blue Bantam; Champion White Bantam – W. Peachey’s Ckl; Brett & Elizabeth Batcheldor’s Bantam Blue Cockerel 1

st in

Bantam Blue Cockerel class; Dimity Hague with her Reserve Champion Junior Bird in Show winner, a Bantam Blue pullet (who appears to have a smile too!); RESERVE BIRD IN SHOW J & C Anderson’s Aust. Langshan Standard Black Ckl In the middle from top to bottom W. Peachey’s Champion Standard White hen, Brett & Elizabeth Batcheldor enjoying the day.

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